PAAC Annual General Meeting
The Public Affairs Association of Canada hosts its Annual General Meeting. Details online.
The Public Affairs Association of Canada hosts its Annual General Meeting. Details online.
Carleton University hosts a webinar, “Media and the Everyday Practice of (Re)Imagining Communities” featuring Emilie Nicolas, columnist with Le Devoir and The Montreal Gazette, who will look into the media coverage of recent social movements on key issues around coloniality, language, and race, and discuss how they have shaken both journalistic practices and public understandings of Canadian ‘nationhood’. This … Read more
The Canadian Club of Toronto hosts a webinar, “Seizing Canada’s Clean Growth Opportunity,” highlighting the big choices that governments, companies and people need to make to realize the country’s potential. This event will take place online.
The Economic Club of Canada hosts a webinar on “Indigenous Connectivity: How Technology Can Support Reconciliation,” part of a three-part series highlighting the work of Indigenous leaders across Canada and creating meaningful dialogue with corporate Canada to advance corporate community engagement, enable social outcomes and drive economic reconciliation. This event will take place online.
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau (Compton-Stanstead, Que.) will virtually join representatives from food banks and local food organizations across the country to announce additional funding to support food security across Canada. Details online. Call 343-541-9229.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute hosts a webinar, “Canada’s Role in 2021: Annual Foreign Policy and International Affairs Survey.” MLI experts Shuvaloy Majumdar, Jonathan Berkshire Miller, and Dr. Balkan Devlen will provide an exclusive preview of the results of MLI’s second Annual Foreign Policy and International Affairs Survey, discussing the implications for Canadian foreign policy, and situating the results within the context of multiple … Read more
The Edmonton Centre for Race and Culture hosts an info session: “Indigenous Education Sessions, #6: Understanding Treaties.” Writer and activist John Brady McDonald will discuss how historic treaties affect First Nations peoples today and how treaties have shaped Indigenous and settler relations. Treaties in Canada provide a framework for the government of Canada and First Nations to work together, and are an … Read more
The Balsillie School for International Affairs hosts a webinar, “Migrating Climates and Climate Migration: Discussing the Climate-Migration Nexus and Refugee Law in Canada,” focussing on how the climate crisis may be affecting Canadian migration and implications for refugee law and policy. Panelists include Robert McLeman, professor of environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University; and Warda Shazadi Meighen, partner … Read more
The University of Saskatchewan hosts a webinar, “Building an Equitable Canadian Science System.” Dr. Kyle Bobiwash, assistant professor and Indigenous scholar at the University of Manitoba, will explored how science, technology and innovation policy is essential in shaping our future. This event will take place online.
The Canadian International Council hosts its Canada Speaks series on “Climate Change: The Arctic Is The Bellwether…Temperatures, Tides and Turbulence.” A yet-to-be announced panel will explore the issue of climate change in the Arctic, its interconnections with northerners’ health, the economy, housing, security, education, food, and culture, and what Canada can do now to become more resilient in the … Read more